Hot chicken salad casserole with potato chips

Hot potato chip chicken salad casserole is a cozy way to warm up this lunch time classic. Creamy chicken salad gets topped with crunchy potato chips and baked for a comforting warm lunch or dinner any chilly day.

Chicken potato chip casserole is also called hot chicken salad. It's a traditional Southern recipe that still makes it to most potlucks and church picnics. Best way to use up those pieces of potato chips at the bottom of the bag!

Hot Chicken Salad is a retro mid-century recipe that will charm you with its simplicity. Traditional chicken salad ingredients are combined in a bubbly casserole, topped with a crunchy potato chip and almond crust. Close your eyes and you will be transported back in time.

This retro dish was once a hot favorite on the menus of tea rooms, bridge clubs, [bridal showers](https://www.southernliving.com/weddings/bridal-showers/outdoor-bridal-shower-food-ideas), and other occasions where ladies lunched. It’s similar to a chicken casserole, but contains more crunchy celery and almonds and less creamy binding, making it more like [chicken salad](https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/old-fashioned-chicken-salad-recipe) – but with the one-dish, full-meal convenience…

This cheesy Hot Chicken Salad is topped with a crunchy potato chip topping. It can be served as a dip or on warm slider rolls.

This Hot Chicken Salad recipe is topped with potato chips and makes the perfect family friendly casserole recipe.

At one of our girl’s nights recently, my friend Courtney brought this Hot Chicken Salad Casserole and I just loved it and went back for seconds. I asked her for the recipe and she said it was…

A crunchy potato chip topping and delicious chicken salad filling make this Hot Chicken Salad Pie anything but ordinary. It's the perfect midweek meal.

Hot chicken salad is a delicious twist on a classic – a creamy chicken filling that's baked until bubbly and topped with melty cheese & crunchy potato chips!